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IAS Mission Statement

As a national research institute anchored at the Hebrew University its mission is to serve as a catalyst for high quality, innovative, collaborative research in a wide array of fields since 1975.

The primary function is to host collaborative research teams comprised of both Israeli and foreign scholars.  Israel is a small country.

Should a small country have an IAS?

Yes, but with no compromise on quality.

Should a small country have several UBIAS?

Not obvious, solidify resources. Institute for Advanced Studies Israel Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Activities of the IAS

Research Groups

Workshops& Schools IAS Activities Conferen ces

Additional activities Research Groups at IAS The primary function of the Institute is to support joint research. Research groups generate a dynamic interchange between scholars. A research group is generally comprised of 8 leading specialists in a given field 4 from Israel and 4 from abroad. Each group is permitted an additional 3 visiting scholars to join for a duration of up to 2 months.

The team is customarily in residence for five or ten months, and on occasions for three months. Applications are open to all scholars Research Groups at IAS

•The Academic Committee of the IAS selects 4 to 5 research groups per year, which amounts to approximately 40 fellowships annually, fully covered with grants for their stay and apartments during their stay.

• Topics may be from among the broad range of fields in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Research topics are not pre-determined by the Institute.

The Institute provides office space, a lecture hall, library, audiovisual equipment, and computer and communications network. The administrative staff at the Institute provides researchers with an office and technical support. The Institute’s dining-room serves lunch to Fellows and Visitors. Research Groups 2006-7

Charity and Piety in the Middle East in Late Antiquity and the Middle- Ages: Continuity and Transformation Coordinated by Miriam Frenkel, Ben Zvi Institute; Yaacov Lev, Bar Ilan University September 2006- February 2007

Movement Ecology: Establishing a Novel Interdisciplinary Field of Research to Explore the Causes, Patterns, Mechanisms and Consequences of Organism Movement Coordinated by Ran Natan (The Hebrew University) September 2006- August 2007 The Interface Between Evolutionary Biology and Coordinated by Sergiu Hart and Avi Shmida (Hebrew University) September 2006- August 2007

Transmission and Appropriation of the Secular Sciences and Philosophy in Medieval Judaism: Comparative Perspectives, Universal and National Aspects Coordinated by Ruth Glasner (Hebrew University) and Gad Freudenthal (CRNS paris) March 2007- August 2007

Combinatorics of Polytopes and Complexes: Relations with Topology and Algebra Coordinated by Gil Kalai (Hebrew University) March 2007 - August 2007 Research Groups 2007-8

Towards a New History of Hasidism Coordinated by David Assaf (Tel Aviv University), Ada Rapaport-Albert (University College, London)September 1, 2007 – August 31, 2008

Neurons and Cognitive Processes Coordinated by Israel Nelken (The Hebrew University), Naftali Tishby (The Hebrew University), Hanoch Gutfreund (The Hebrew University) October 7, 2007 – February 28, 2008

Moral Psychology, Moral Motivation, and Moral Realism Coordinated by David Enoch (The Hebrew University) March 1– August 31, 2008

Common Law Legal Transplants: A Comparative Historical Analysis Coordinated by Ron Harris, Assaf Likhovski (both of Tel Aviv University) March 1– August 31, 2008 Research Groups 2008-9

The Sociology of Contemporary Jewish Mysticism in Comparative Perspective Coordinated by Philip Wexler, Jonathan Garb (both form The Hebrew University ) September 1, 2008 – August 31, 2009

The Concept of Urban Changes Coordinated by Ronnie Ell (The Hebrew University), Naftali Tishby (The Hebrew University), Hanoch Gutfreund (The Hebrew University) October 7, 2007 – February 28, 2008

Contesting Liberal Citizenship in Latin America Coordinated by Mario Szanjder Luis Roniger (The Hebrew University) March 1– August 31, 2008

Interconnections and Regional Narratives in Mediterranean Archaeology Coordinated by Mario Szanjder Luis Roniger (The Hebrew University) March 1– August 31, 2008 Research Groups 2009-10

Ancient Arabia and its relations With Surrounding Cultures Professor Michael Lecker and Prof. Joseph Patrich (Hebrew University) September 2009- August 2010 Personal Versus Established Religion Professor Meir Bar-Asher Brouria Ashkelony (Hebrew University) September 2009- August 2010 Behavioral Economics Professor Michael Eyal Winter (Hebrew University) September 2009- August 2010 Research Groups 2010-11 ENCOUNTERING SCRIPTURE IN OVERLAPPING CULTURES: EARLY JEWISH, CHRISTIAN AND MUSLIM STRATEGIES OF READING AND THEIR CONTEMPORARY IMPLICATIONS Proposed by: Mordechai Z. Cohen (Yeshiva University) Meir Bar-Asher (The Hebrew University) : September 1, 2010 - February 28, 2011 Langlands Duality in Representation Theory and Gauge Theory Proposed by: David Kazhdan (The Hebrew University) Dates: September 1, 2010 - February 28, 2011

ALGORITHMIC GAME THEORY: THE NEXT DECADE Proposed by: Prof. Michal Feldman and Prof. Noam Nisan (the Hebrew U.) Dates: March 1-August 31, 2011 COMPUTATION AND THE BRAIN Proposed by: Prof. Oron Shagrir (The Hebrew U.) Prof. Eli Dresner (Tel-Aviv University) Dates: March 1-August 31, 2011

CULTURAL ARCHAEOLOGY OF JEWS AND SLAVS: MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN JUDEO-SLAVIC INTERACTION AND CROSS-FERTILIZATION Proposed by: Prof. Moshe Taube and Alexander Kulik (The Hebrew U.) Dates: March 1-June 1, 2011 SOVEREIGNTY, GLOBAL JUSTICE AND THE ETHICS OF WAR Proposed by: Yitzhak Benbaji (Bar-Ilan University) Eyal Benvenisti (Tel Aviv University) Dates: June 1-August 31, 2011 Research Groups 2011-12

The Migration of Criminal Law Principles from National to International Law Proposed by: Prof. Miriam Gur-Arye (The Hebrew U.) Dates: September 1, 2011 - February 28, 2012

Practical and Theoretical Rationality: A Comparative Study Proposed by: Prof. Ruth Weintraub (Tel Aviv U.) Dates: September 1, 2011 - February 28, 2012

Jewish Physicians in Medieval Christian Europe: Professional Knowledge as a Cultural Change Proposed by: Prof. Gad Freudenthal (CNRS, Paris) Dr. Reimund Leicht (The Hebrew U.) Dates: March 1-August 31, 2012

Bounded Rationality: Beyond the Classical Paradigm Proposed by: Prof. Elchanan Ben-Porath (The Hebrew U.) Dates: March 1-August 31, 2012

Integrability and Gauge/String Duality Proposed by: Prof. Romuald A. Janik (Jagiellonian U.) Prof. Matthias Staudacher (Max-Planck-Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam) Dates: March 1-June 1, 2012 Molecular Electronics Proposed by: Prof. Amnon Aharony (Ben-Gurion U.) Dates: June 1-August 31, 2012 Research Group Breakdown by Discipline 1999-2009

number of groups

Humanities 25 Natural Sciences 8 Social Sciences 6 Law 2 Research Group Fellows by Geographic Distribution 1999-2009 Geographic Representation of IAS Fellows 1990- 2010 Research Group Fellows Breakdown by Academic Institution 2000-2009 IAS Research Group Proposals Accepted / Rejected 1999-2001

22 17

18

12 11 8 11 10 10 7 7 10

6 Annual Schools at IAS

The Institute operates five short-term schools annually under the auspices of the Victor Rothschild Memorial Symposia. They are in the field of Theoretical Physics, Life Sciences, Economic Theory, Jewish Studies in Comparative Religion, and Mathematics. Three of the five schools are directed by Nobel laureates. Each school is headed by an eminent scholar and an Israeli co-director. Senior scholars and capable young students (doctoral and post-doctoral students from Israel and abroad) enter into an exchange of knowledge for 7-10 days. The Institute subsidizes participants in the form of travel grants, tuition or hotel. The Israeli coordinator in coordination with IAS staff allocates scholarships to candidates and assumes responsibility for technical arrangements. Scholars and students have traveled here from Western and Eastern Europe, South and North America, China, India, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, North Africa, and beyond.

Edward Witten - Director - Fields Medalist

David Gross- Director - Nobel Laureate

Steven Weinberg- Director - Nobel Laureate Physics School Lecturers and Participants Distribution by Continent 1998-2009 Prof. David Baltimore Prof. Roger Kornberg

Director - Nobel Laureate Director - Nobel Laureate

Prof . Bert Sakmann - Director - Nobel Laureate Peter Sarnak- Director - Prof. Kenneth Arrow

Director - Nobel laureate Prof.

Director - Nobel laureate Prof. Eric Maskin

Director - Nobel laureate Prof. Haym Soloveitchik

Director

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83 Workshops Workshops The Institute for Advanced Studies allocates funds in the amount of $7,000 to $ 28,000 US dollars for workshops. Researchers from academic institutions around the world are invited to submit a proposal to the Academic Committee. The IAS hosts 4 to 6 interactive workshops annually on a range of topics. This is a round table meeting of experts. Workshops are 5 to 15 days long. Ph.D’s students and post-docs, from Israel and abroad are invited to participate.

IAS /ISF Workshops

From 2006 the IAS launched a series of in-depth international workshops in collaborations with the ISF. The funding per event is of the order of $ 45,000. by now about 20 such events have occurred.

Workshops Discipline 1999-2009

IAS International Activities

The Institute for Advanced Studies has a variety of international activities and cooperative enterprises.

• ESF

The European Science Foundation and the Institute for Advanced Studies have an alliance to support high quality schools in theoretical physics. Both enterprises are committed to encourage academic interchange of students and scholars from Europe, Israel and worldwide. The ESF has provided financial support in the amount of 75,000 Euros for four years to the IAS Physics School. To foster this partnership, Prof. Bertil Anderson, CEO of the ESF, was invited by the IAS to open the 2006 Physics School. IAS International Activities

• NetIAS NetIAS (Network of European Institutes for Advanced Study) is an informal network of currently 17 European Institutes for Advanced Study (IAS), represented by their Directors. It was founded in 2004 on the initiative of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. Its main purpose is to engage in discussions with the European Commission about a better participation of IAS in the European Research Area. Members of NetIAS: 1. Center for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Sciences, Oslo 2. Center for Advanced Study, Sofia, Bulgaria 3. Centre of Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities, Cambridge, UK 4. Collegium Budapest, Hungry 5. Collegium Helveticum, Swiss 6. Flemish Academy Center for Sciences and Arts, Brussles, Belgium 7. Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Study, Finland 8. Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 9. Institute for Advanced Studies in the humanities; University of Edinburgh 10. Institute of Advanced Study - Università di Bologna, Italy 11. Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna, Austria 12. Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, France 13. Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Wassenaar 14. New Europe College, Bukarest, Romania 15. Robert Schuman Center of the European University Institute, Florence, Italy 16. Swedisch Center for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, Uppsala 17. Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Germany College De France

The Institute for Advanced Studies has approached the College De France with a venture of cooperative academic activities. The declaration of cooperation is under discussion at the present time.

• IAS Consortium

The IAS Consortium, also known as SIAS, is an informal group of "Some Institutes for Advanced Study" that get together once a year. This consortium of American and European institutes for advanced study began with six members in the early 1990s and now numbers nine. There is a rotating chairmanship to which all SIAS correspondence can be sent in a particular year.

The 9 Institutes that are part of SIAS:

1. Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton 2. Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford 3. National Humanities Center/Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 4. Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Wassenaar 5. Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, Uppsala 6. Collegium Budapest 7. Russell Sage Foundation, New York 8. Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard 9. Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin / Institute for Advanced Study at Berlin Outreach Lectures In December 2006, Prof. David Gross and Prof. Eliezer Rabinovici spoke to an audience of Jewish and Arab Israeli high school students on the topics of "Einstein and the Unified Theory of Matter" and "Strings: Musical Instruments in the Orchestra of the Universe". The evening was designed to acquaint the students with science's innovative path and to encourage an ideas exchange among young scientists. Hebrew University Yad Hanadiv

IAS ISSUES Academic

Evaluation system: input, output

A vision beyond the horizon

Diversity of group formation PERSONNEL

IAS jerusalem: 11 staff for 47 fellows + over 1000 Comparison (always complicated) : NIAS: 21for 50 Stanford: 21 for 38 National Humanities Center: 28 for 39 Wissenschaftkolleg (Berlin) 40 for 40

Constraints within a university system IT Thank You